Entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin, his mother and wife fell under EU sanctions, which were introduced after Russia recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.
“According to the available preliminary information, the European Union has imposed sanctions against 27 legal entities and individuals, including banks that finance Russian operations in the Donbass. The list also included Yevgeny Viktorovich, his mother and his wife. This is the third European sanctions in which he is probably included,” informs businessman’s official telegram channel.
In the summer of 2021, Prigozhin applied to the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury (OFAC) with a request to lift sanctions from him (remove the applicant from the list of specially designated persons). In a statement, he pointed out that the sanctions against him were imposed unreasonably, with excess of authority and on the basis of “arbitrary unpredictable actions that violate constitutional principles.”
